CVE-2015-3991 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

strongSwan 5.2.2 and 5.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.04756.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Strongswan Subscribe	Strongswan Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:5.2.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:strongswan:strongswan:5.3.0:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-4021	strongSwan 5.2.2 and 5.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or execute arbitrary code.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164276.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-August/164278.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76861
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222815
https://www.strongswan.org/blog/2015/06/01/strongswan-vulnerability-%28cve-2015-3991%29.html

History

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Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-07T20:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:04:02.669Z

Reserved: 2015-05-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-3991

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-07T20:29:00.407

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2015-3991

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-19

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